Bear Hugs # 11 & 12 !

I started very early today and got these 2 small sandwiches fancy quilted and bound.  I know the kiddos and the bears don't give a toot about the fancy quilting,  but it is the delightful time for my soul. 

 They each finished at 18 x 22 to fit this new batch of bears, which are 11 inches long but narrower than the first set of bears ordered.  I quilted with a pink Glide thread in the top and bobbin and ruler quilted with special templates.

This special mission project was initially inspired by Mary Johnson of Mary Quilts.  You can read more about it  HERE .

25-11

               

25-11 back

25-12

25-12 back

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Saturday -  soscrappy

                        Quilting Patchwork Appliqué           

Sunday  -  Quilting is more fun than Housework...

Monday   -   Small Quilts & Doll Quilts

                      Monday Musings at Songbird Designs

        Wednesday   -    The Inquiring Quilter

Thursday   -   quiltinglearningcombo.blogspot.com

My Quilt Infatuation

Friday  -  Alycia Quilts

Thanks so much for stopping by.  Wishing you all a creative and happy week.

Friday Quilt Hop * 4-4-2025

 

Welcome to the Friday Quilt Hop.

I hope you discover new inspiration today.

SECRET FOREST - WELL OWL BE | Dear Stella - Unique Fabric Brand with Modern Style | www.dearstelladesign.com

this is a lovely quilt with owls

Free Downloads – Quilting Affection Designs

5 years of fancy star blocks plus a few extra quilt patterns

Free Patterns - Gray Barn Designs

some charming quilts plus lots of  unique paper pieced blocks

Wishing everyone a safe and productive week.  Thanks so much for stopping by.

Bear Hug # 9 & 10

 Now I'm torn whether to call my batch of stuffies wrapped in blankets as Bear Hugs or Care Bears.  What do you think??  ( due to overwhelming choice from some quilty friends, it shall remain "Bear Hugs")  Thanks to everyone for your input.

This is # 9.  I spent too much time quilting on it.  I would like to finish #10 by tomorrow to keep up with my goals.  In the meantime here is # 9 for this year ..........  this little blanket is made with the twist n stitch tool.  Such fun,  I want to make a bigger one now.  Please ignore the patch job I had to do on one petal due to mis-cutting.  This guy measures 23 x 27.

Here is the fleece print on the back.  So cuddley with batting and fleece.  I quilted it with yellow Glide thread.

Here is the little guy getting wrapped up in the blanket for gifting  ..

and now a revision to this post.  I did get bear hug # 10 finished this morning.  It was made from an orphan/test block from the 1-1/2" strip bin.  I birthed this one instead of binding..... probably won't be doing that again.

Here is the back and his stuffie is a PBS Kids.

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Saturday -  soscrappy

                        Quilting Patchwork Appliqué           

Sunday  -  Quilting is more fun than Housework...

Monday   -   Small Quilts & Doll Quilts

                      Monday Musings at Songbird Designs

        Wednesday   -    The Inquiring Quilter

Thursday   -   quiltinglearningcombo.blogspot.com

My Quilt Infatuation

Friday  -  Alycia Quilts

I'm wishing everyone a safe and creative week.  Thanks so much for stopping by.

Friday Quilt Hop * 3-28-2025

Welcome to the Friday Quilt Hop.

I hope you discover new inspiration today.

Party Train by Bethany Fuller, Free Projects, Windham Fabrics

a cute quilt 4 kids with train cars

rileyblakedesigns.com/assets/images/freepatterns/quiltpatterns/FullSteamAheadWithThomasAndFriendsChooChooFreePattern.pdf

more free train cars to piece

Lone Star Tree Skirt Sew Along - Hopeful Homemaker

a beautiful Lone Star tree skirt

Make a Splash | modafabrics.com

what a fun quilt; substitute any ocean-like applique

I had to copy/paste this url

fp_make-a-splash.pdf

Too Tired To Give A Hoot | Justquiltin with Denise Russart

owl center wall quilt ... cute !

I wish everyone a safe and creative week.  Thanks so much for stopping by.

 

Bear Hugs 7 & 8 and Starburst Center Baby Quilt

 I've tried to have a productive week while working around appointments.  I started piecing my Crimson Christmas kit designed by Krista Moser.  You can get it  HERE .  I cut and pieced through steps 1-6 & 12.  She has helpful videos on a private group which she will close after one year....come October.

Since I have so many photos today, I kept them on the smaller size.  You can click on any photo to get a larger pic.

Then I moved on to donation projects.  These bear hugs # 7 & 8 came from the blue scrap bin which was still out from February's RSC.  I was going to put it away but there were several rail fence type sets sewn together for L/E.  I made a few more to complete the sets and made two bear hug quilts.

# 7 is made from 3" finished rails. finished at 17 x 20.  I paired it with a PBS Kids stuffie and free motion quilted a grid using rulers plus a little swirly in the tiny border.  The backing is an adorable fleece print of puppies.

# 8 is made from 4 " finished rails, has a royal blue fleece backing and free motion quilted in a grid using rulers.  This one finishes at 24 x 24 and is paired with an adorable large eyes stuffie donated to me by our dear friend, Dee in Nebraska.

Here is my third donation finish this week.  This is a topper donated by Cindy Weber of Indiana.  It measures 36 x 36 so it will go to the Foster Child Ministry in our area which serves 6 counties.  I also backed this one with that adorable puppy fleece and had great fun free motion quilting different designs in all the borders.  I had to give it a name and didnt know what that center block is called, so I penned it  "Starburst".

I'm joining these lovely linky parties this week.  Please be sure to visit them to see what other creative quilters are sharing.

Saturday -  soscrappy

                        Quilting Patchwork Appliqué           

Sunday  -  Quilting is more fun than Housework...

Monday   -   Small Quilts & Doll Quilts

                      Monday Musings at Songbird Designs

        Wednesday   -    The Inquiring Quilter

Thursday   -   quiltinglearningcombo.blogspot.com

My Quilt Infatuation

Friday  -  Alycia Quilts

I hope everyone has a safe and creative week ahead.  Thanks so much for stopping by.

Friday Quilt Hop * 3-21-2025

Welcome to the Friday Quilt Hop.

I hope you discover new inspiration today.

Tutorials - Bonjour Quilts

a nice collection of tutorials and quilts;

colorful and modern

St Patricks is a month for green and so I had

to include this gorgeous quilt free from "Quilted Twins"

bearpawsinthegreatoutdoors.pdf

Block of the Month, Row by Row Sampler- Quilting With Tamara

a lovely row sampler for 2024

2025 Mystery Quilt - Quilting With Tamara

a new mystery quilt of the month for 2025

Free Quilt Block Library - Quilting With Tamara

a small offering of 12" block patterns

Wishing everyone a happy and creative week.  Thanks so much for stopping by.

 

Sailing

I was picking on google for blue and yellow quilts and stumbled on a pic like this one and couldn't resist doing it.  It was a bit of work,  sewing all those 2 - 1/2 inch squares together, drawing the boats in EQ which I paper pieced.  Now it is a completed flimsy 47 x 55.  It covers my quilt of  the month for RSC.  The color for March is yellow.

I have tons of tops to quilt at this point, so don't know when I'll get this one quilted, but I'm aiming for this year!  In the meantime, I'm joining these lovely linky parties this week.  Be sure to visit them to see what other creative quilters are sharing.

Saturday -  soscrappy

                        Quilting Patchwork Appliqué           

Sunday  -  Quilting is more fun than Housework...

Monday   -   Small Quilts & Doll Quilts

                      Monday Musings at Songbird Designs

        Wednesday   -    The Inquiring Quilter

Thursday   -   quiltinglearningcombo.blogspot.com

My Quilt Infatuation

Friday  -  Alycia Quilts

Wishing everyone a safe and creative week.  Thanks so much for stopping by.

Friday Quilt Hop * 3-14-2025

 

Welcome to the Friday Quilt Hop.

I hope you discover new inspiration today.

Sentimental Stitches | Free Patterns

large list of free patterns,  some applique or embroidery

Monday Morning Designs

assorted quilting and finishing methods; especially 

helpful for beginners

A Few Scraps: Free-Motion Designs

free motion quilting designs

A Few Scraps: Tutorials

dbl disappearing 9-patch; magic triangle

block plus more

Wishing everyone a safe and creative week.  Thanks so much for stopping by.

Bear Hug # 6

 It may not look like a lot was accomplished this week, but I do have several things in the works.  So, for today I can share little Bear Hug # 6.  I am still working with the recent RSC colors of blues and yellows.  I used the same print fabric on the back.  I fmq swirls and used a ruler for the straight line grid in the center.

and here he is all bundled up and ready for gifting ...........

I'm joining these lovely linky parties this week.  Be sure to visit them to see what other creative quilters are sharing.

Saturday -  soscrappy

                        Quilting Patchwork Appliqué           

Sunday  -  Quilting is more fun than Housework...

Monday   -   Small Quilts & Doll Quilts

                      Monday Musings at Songbird Designs

        Wednesday   -    The Inquiring Quilter

Thursday   -   quiltinglearningcombo.blogspot.com

My Quilt Infatuation

Friday  -  Alycia Quilts

Wishing everyone a happy and productive week.  Thanks so much for stopping by.

Friday Quilt Hop * 3-7-2025

Welcome to the Friday Quilt Hop.

I hope you discover new inspiration today.

BubzRugz: My Tutorials and Tips

variety of tutes; qayg sashing, easy christmas cards,

charm pack baby quilt; easy applique & more

Quilted Twins | Free Patterns | Dade City, FL

refresh yourself with this wonderful collection of

scrappy quilts

Small Wonders: Mastering Tiny Nine Patch Blocks Without the Fuss

a method for making teeny tiny 9-patch blocks

How to Make Scrappy Four Patch Quilt Blocks in Minutes

making tiny 4-patches scrappy and efficiently

Wishing everyone a happy and productive week.  Thanks so much for stopping by.

 

Mod Flowers - a Q4K

 This dear little quilt languished in the laundry basket for eons, aka a few years.  It began as a 3-yard quilt project from a free pattern  I got at Wood Valley Designs website.  I must have been experimenting with a new binding method because when I washed it,  the fabric frayed away from the binding.  Hence, the living under a laundry basket.

I finally decided to pull it out,  cut away the attached binding, a begin again.  It now has fresh binding and is ready for the 'quilts 4 kids' collection.  It now measures 42 x 48.

The backing is a soft fleece print.  I free motion quilted it with rulers and also played with other free-style designs.

I'm joining these lovely linky parties this week.  Be sure to visit them to see what other creative quilters are sharing.

Saturday -  soscrappy

                        Quilting Patchwork Appliqué           

Sunday  -  Quilting is more fun than Housework...

Monday   -   Small Quilts & Doll Quilts

                      Monday Musings at Songbird Designs

        Wednesday   -    The Inquiring Quilter

Thursday   -   quiltinglearningcombo.blogspot.com

My Quilt Infatuation

Friday  -  Alycia Quilts

Wishing everyone a happy and creative week.  Thanks so much for stopping by.

SAHRR '25 - Round 6

 When the specs for round 6 was released,  I spent my morning in EQ, playing with options for the new round.  It just made this quilt far too big. I already have several queen size tops to quilt and finish.  So I stayed with my first thought of using Round 6 for my corner blocks to round 5.  I love how it finished because my border on round 5 just looked to me like a finishing frame to this quilt.

I used the kite block times 4 for each corner.  I used an accuquilt die (thank you very much) to cut these pieces.  My biggest problem came where the 4 blocks join together in the center...too many points which needs a hammer to make it flat.  Each kite block only finishes at 3 inches making the 4-patch unit finish to 6 inches.

This is not a good photo.  DH could not hold up the entire top since it measures something like 72 x 78?  I hope to get a better photo this Sunday with help from others to hold it up.

I'm joining these lovely linky parties this week.  Please be sure to visit them to see what other creative quilters are sharing.

The Darling Dogwood to see all the SAHRR 2025

Saturday -  soscrappy

                        Quilting Patchwork Appliqué           

Sunday  -  Quilting is more fun than Housework...

Monday   -   Small Quilts & Doll Quilts

                      Monday Musings at Songbird Designs

        Wednesday   -    The Inquiring Quilter

Thursday   -   quiltinglearningcombo.blogspot.com

My Quilt Infatuation

Friday  -  Alycia Quilts

Wishing everyone a happy week.  Thanks so much for stopping by.

Friday Quilt Hop * 2-28-2025

 

Welcome to the Friday Quilt Hop.

I hope you discover new inspiration today.

free patterns

several quilt designs;  kite flight quilts use

strips, tumbling cats....lots more

Free Patterns - Gray Barn Designs

quilts: really love Drops of Rainbow and Sofa Siesta;

lots of designs for holidays using small squares or alphabet

Free Downloadable Patterns – Page 6

7 pages full of free designs; goes thru shopping cart

mostly quilts, a few smaller items; wide variety of styles

Wishing everyone a happy and creative week.  Thanks so much for stopping by.

Bear Hug # 5

 More delightful little bear hug quilts to share this week.  For bear hug #5, I pulled some bricks, blues for RSC and yellow for an accent.  I sewed them as leader/enders while stitching on my SAHRR project.  I had to trim down parts of the bricks to make the blocks.  Then finishing up by cutting alternating squares from a piece of leftover wide backing. It is a nice soft blue print.  It measures 24 x 28.  

The backing is another piece of that royal blue fleece.  I used 80/20 batting and quilted it with Glide threads using one of Natalia Bonners templates.

I also finished bear hug # 2 made last month using pink leftovers from the pink and brown flimsy.  I quilted it with very large swirls.  The backing is a red fleece. It measures 22 x 28.

I'm joining these lovely linky parties this week.  Be sure to visit them to see what other creative quilters are sharing.

Saturday -  soscrappy

                        Quilting Patchwork Appliqué           

Sunday  -  Quilting is more fun than Housework...

Monday   -   Small Quilts & Doll Quilts

                      Monday Musings at Songbird Designs

        Wednesday   -    The Inquiring Quilter

Thursday   -   quiltinglearningcombo.blogspot.com

My Quilt Infatuation

Friday  -  Alycia Quilts

Wishing everyone a happy and productive week.  Thanks so much for stopping by.

Friday Quilt Hop * 2-21-2025

  

Welcome to the Friday Quilt Hop.

I hope you discover new inspiration today.

free patterns — Threaded Quilting Studio

an unusual strippy heart, a no y-seam feathered star

and a scrappy brick quilt

tutorials — Threaded Quilting Studio

tutorials for the techniques mentioned above are

found here

Aurora Feathered Star Quilt Block Tutorial - WeAllSew

a feathered star with showcase quilting

Confessions of a Fabric Addict: Tutorials

a large collection of lovely quilt patterns; many using up

your leftovers

Wishing everyone a safe and creative week.  Thanks so much for stopping by.

 

SAHRR '25 - Round 5

 My quilt is getting larger than I wanted it to be.  I will have to make Round 6 to be very small.  Round 5 called for some form of half log cabin block design.  I play in EQ, you would have to in order to do the border you will see here.  Initially I began with assorted log cabin style blocks all around the quilt.  It was just more labor intensive than I was aiming for.

You gotta love how EQ can create over the top and still make it easy for you.  I started with a half log cabin block and popped them in assorted border styles.  Eventually I cut it way down to just 4 blocks each side.  My quilt right now is 70 x 78.  Then I had to re-draw them in the size I wanted because I wanted to eliminate the center seam and make them each one full block.  Figuring out the cutting dimensions was confusing trying to convert the two blocks into one, (eliminate seam allowance here; add one on there, etc).  

So I re-drew these crazy blocks, there is a different size for the top/bottom border from the side borders.  I made my blocks yesterday and sewed them on the sides this morning.  I am not going to sew on the top/bottom blocks until I decide what I will do in the corners....trying to not grow it larger at this point.

Not the best photo, too cold to make DH stand outside and it is too large for him to hold it up properly by himself.

You can see what the other participants are creating for their Stay at Home Round Robin at this  LINK .

Have a great week.  Thanks so much for stopping by.

Lil Blu Bear Hug #4

 I pulled 2 leftover pieces from the shelf that went together but not with anything else. The navy was a 15 inch piece and the celery green had 18 inchs,  there is still a bit left of that.  I had fun constructing this little bear quilt which took every bit of the navy blue print, finishing with a narrow binding made from 2 inch strips.  I rounded the corners just a teeny bit, so easy to bind.

I used a dark royal blue fleece on the back and included some batting scraps; quilted with cream Glide thread using the walking foot.  What a mistake with dark glide in the bobbin as it kept poking up the top no matter what adjustments I tried.  Eventually, just went with it as is.  It finished at 22" square.

This little stuffed guy was generously sent to me by an online friend, Dee.  Many of you here will know of her.  lol.

Wish I could get the blog page to permit side by side photos.  May be if I try a different template.

But for this week, I'm joining these fun linky parties.  Be sure to visit them to see what other quilters are sharing.   

Thanks so much for stopping by.

Saturday -  soscrappy

                        Quilting Patchwork Appliqué           

Sunday  -  Quilting is more fun than Housework...

Monday   -   Small Quilts & Doll Quilts

                      Monday Musings at Songbird Designs

        Wednesday   -    The Inquiring Quilter

Thursday   -   quiltinglearningcombo.blogspot.com

My Quilt Infatuation

Friday  -  Alycia Quilts

Friday Quilt Hop * 2-14-2025

Welcome to the Friday Quilt Hop.

I hope you discover new inspiration today.

Star Chain {a FREE Layer Cake quilt pattern} — Material Girl Quilts

scrappy and gorgeous is this Star Chain quilt

Fun quilting projects

click a category on the right side bar to be taken

to it's free options

free-easy-batik-quilt-patterns.pdf

a booklet of 3 patterns

Batik Split Rail Fence Quilt - Freemotion by the River

a batik 4-rail fence quilt; quick and colorful

Wishing everyone a happy creative week.  Thanks so much for stopping by.

 

SAHRR '25 - Rnd 4

 Every Monday morning I spend in EQ8 playing around with possible borders for the new round.  This time I settled on a pretty quickly.  Now I know there is a quicker, stripset method for making this block style, but I stayed with the plan to cut the fabric apart, insert a strip or two, re-assemble and trim to size.

I started with 4-1/2 inch squares plus the accent strip to be inserted:

Cut them apart to be re-assembled:

I decided to keep it simple and avoid doing angled cuts.  Here is my round 4 border.  I really like this round!  It's now up to 56 x 64.  Trying to not let it get much over 60 x 80.

I'm linking up with pieceful wendy .  Be sure to visit there to see all the other stay at home round robins being created this year.

Thanks so much for stopping by.